Background The personality traits of positive and negative urgency refer to the tendencies to
act rashly when experiencing unusually positive or negative emotions, respectively …

Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis function fundamentally affects the physiology of
eating. We review sex differences in the physiological and pathophysiological controls of …

Because no single report has examined risk factors that predict future onset each type of
eating disorder and core symptom dimensions that crosscut disorders, we addressed these …

Objective Although several prospective studies have identified factors that increase risk for
eating disorders, little is known about when these risk factors emerge and escalate, or when …

Objective: One goal in identifying psychosocial risk factors is to discover opportunities for
intervention. The purpose of this review is to examine psychosocial risk factors for …

Adolescence is an important developmental period marked by a transition from primarily
parental-controlled eating to self-directed and peer-influenced eating. During this period …

Background and aims Impulsivity is a risk factor for addictive behaviors. The UPPS-P
impulsivity model has been associated with substance addiction and gambling disorder, but …

Emotion-related impulsivity, the trait-like tendency toward regrettable behavior during states
of high emotion, is a robust predictor of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology …

Despite significant advances in the development of prevention and treatment interventions
for eating disorders and disordered eating over the last decade, there still remains a …

This article offers a new model for bulimia nervosa (BN) that explains both the initial
impulsive nature of binge eating and purging, as well as the compulsive quality of the fully …